Gingrich: No GOP health care plan

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Wednesday told party chairs and operatives at the Republican National Committee summer meeting that the GOP has “zero” ideas for replacing Obamacare.

“I will bet you, for most of you, you go home in the next two weeks when your members of Congress are home, and you look them in the eye and you say, ‘What is your positive replacement for Obamacare?’ They will have zero answer,” Gingrich told the Boston crowd, said a report from CNN.

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Gingrich said the party has a “very deep problem” with a culture that promotes negativity.

“We are caught up right now in a culture, and you see it every single day, where as long as we are negative and as long as we are vicious and as long as we can tear down our opponent, we don’t have to learn anything. And so we don’t,” Gingrich said, according to video of the event from MSNBC.

Gingrich was addressing the Boston meeting with RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, during an afternoon workshop titled, “Becoming the Party of Breakout.”

The new host of the upcoming CNN reincarnation of “Crossfire” said Republicans need to focus more on being “a party of hope”, and less on being against President Barack Obama.

“I think part of what we have to do in the era of Obama’s disaster, is we have to get beyond being anti-Obama, and we have to reconvince people you can have hope in America, that we can have a better future,” Gingrich said, according to video of his remarks.

Priebus told CNN he did “not completely” agree with Gingrich’s remarks on Obamacare and brought up health care proposals on Republican leaders’ websites.

Gingrich has said he supports prominent newer members of the party, like Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.), telling radio host Laura Ingraham earlier this month that the pair makes the establishment of the party “hysterical” because it has “no answers.”